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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Love Pain Relationships Self

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Kiss Love Trouble

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Love Self Sacrifice

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Love

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway Love

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Love

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Life

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Honesty Life Truth Wisdom

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Age Flight Life Loss Nostalgia

How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Knowledge Life Time

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Life

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Dying Ernest Hemingway For Whom The Bell Tolls Life Living

All thinking men are atheists.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Atheism Inspirational

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Love

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Humor

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Philosophy Writing

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Philosophy

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Philosophy Simplicity

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Life Literature Philosophy Writing

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Trust Truth

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Truth Writing Writing Advice

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Authors Good Books Truth Writers

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Truth

wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Egg God Hemingway

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Age Wisdom

You should not judge, you should understand.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Advice Empathy Understanding Wisdom

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Happiness

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Happiness Moveable Feast Spring

He can't have gone, he said Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it. The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Fishing Hope

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Killing Luck Man Moon Nature Stars Sun

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Rain

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Boat Death Dying Morning Rowboat

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Hemingway Humor Poets Terza Rima

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Family Violence War

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Death Writing

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Kiss Life Quotes Whiskey Woman

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Faith Yankees

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Good Writing

The first draft of anything is shit.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Attributed No Source Writing

When writing a novel a writer should create living people, people not characters. A character is a caricature.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Caricature Characters Skill True To Life Writing
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